Final Documentation
Final Documentation
A PROJECT REPORT
Submitted to
Department of Computer Application
Itahari Namuna College
Submitted by
Supervisor’s Recommendation
I hereby recommend that this project prepared under my supervision by Saugat Shrestha and Anil Diyali
entitled “House Rental System” in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor’s in
Computer Application is recommended for the final evaluation.
Letter of Approval
This is to certify that this project prepared by Saugat Shrestha and Anil Diyali entitled “House Rental System”
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor’s in Computer Application has been
evaluated. In our opinion it is satisfactory in the scope and quality as a project for the required degree.
The success and final outcomes of this project requires a lot of guidance and assistance from many people and
are very fortunate to have this all along the completion of this project. We would like to express our gratitude
and appreciation to all those who gave us the possibility to complete this project. We are very glad to express
our deepest sense of gratitude and sincere thanks to our supervisor Er. Chandra Prasad Acharya and project
teacher Mr.Saman Kc whose contribution in simulating suggestions and encouragement helped us in
completing our project.
We are also thankful to Mr. Nabin Shrestha, HOD, Itahari Namuna College and Mr. Dharma Neupane,
Principal, Itahari Namuna College for encouraging and guiding us throughout the completion of this project.
All useful suggestions for this whole work and co-operative behaviour are sincerely acknowledged.
Last but not the least, many thanks go to our teachers, friends, guardians who directly or indirectly helped us in
achieving the goal. We would like to appreciate all the guidance and support, which helped in completion of
this project. Special thanks to their comment and advices.
Table of Content
Abstract........................................................................................................................................1
CHAPTER ONE..............................................................................................................................5
Introduction......................................................................................................................................5
Problem Statement.......................................................................................................................5
Background..................................................................................................................................5
Purpose.........................................................................................................................................6
Scope............................................................................................................................................7
Applicability................................................................................................................................7
CHAPTER TWO.............................................................................................................................7
SURVEY OF TECHNOLOGIES....................................................................................................7
Introduction to MySQL........................................................................................................................10
Strategic management............................................................................................................12
CHAPTER THREE.......................................................................................................................12
HARDWARE............................................................................................................................12
SOFTWARE..............................................................................................................................12
Functional Requirements...........................................................................................................13
Non-Functional Requirements...................................................................................................13
CONCEPTUAL MODELS........................................................................................................14
Functions of Customer...............................................................................................................15
USE-CASE DIAGRAMS...........................................................................................................16
Class Diagram............................................................................................................................19
CHAPTER FOUR..........................................................................................................................20
SYSTEM DESIGN........................................................................................................................20
POST HOUSE...........................................................................................................................28
Enquiry House...........................................................................................................................31
Manage pages.............................................................................................................................36
Security......................................................................................................................................37
The system provides username and password to prevent the system from unauthorized access.
The staffs’ password must be greater than eight characters......................................................37
Test Cases Design......................................................................................................................37
CHAPTER FIVE...........................................................................................................................40
TESTING 40
CHAPTER 6..................................................................................................................................47
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................47
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................48
Books Used:...............................................................................................................................48
References Used:.......................................................................................................................48
GLOSSARY..............................................................................................................................48
Table of figures
ER diagram Figure 1......................................................................................................................14
Level 0 DFD diagram for House Rental management system Figure 2........................................14
Figure 3Level 1 DFD of Online House Rental System.................................................................16
Figure 4: Use Case Diagram..........................................................................................................18
Figure 5Dependency Use Case Diagram.......................................................................................19
Figure 6 Class Diagram.................................................................................................................19
Abstract
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. With the
current paradigm shift in technological field, there is an urgent need to embrace and
appreciate the power of technology. Housing sector remains vigilant to face the
challenges of change by employing a new strategy that facilitates easy management of
rental houses. Hence there is need to develop a rental house management system that can
simplify work for the rental managers so that all their work can be efficient and effective.
The Rental Management System is Searching in Based on the Apartment Paying Guest,
Office, House in metropolitan cities. The Rental Management System is Based on the
Owners and the Customers. The Owner is updated on the Apartment, Office details,
House, Paying Guest details. The Customer is details about the Room space, Room rent
and the Address Details also.
The Rental Management System is best Suitable the owners because time save and the
only contact and the eligible person and there is no need to explain the room details on
the speak. The Rental Management System is best application in the city place The
customer contact and the easily search and the suitable place of Apartment, Office, Roon,
House and based the Money, Limit Person is based on the suitable house.
The Rental Management System is save the time also. The Rental Management System is
used to easily identify the suitable place in Save time, cost also. The Rental Management
System is best way to search the house, Apartment office, Room . Hence this system is
best applicable for the above reasons making House rental an easy process through an
online system.
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1Introduction
Nowadays monitoring a place or a facility is not as easy as we think. We need to inspect
a place or go for an ocular visit to find a property that is available. As we observed the
process of monitoring a place to rent is somewhat heavy As an IT student, we can suggest
an Automated Property Rental System. This System can make a huge impact specially in
comfort ability of monitoring ones finding home.
1.2Problem Statement
House Rental is a house/Apartment/home that can be used temporarily for a fee during a
specified period. The individual who needs a house must contact a rental car company
and contract out for a room/home/apartment. This system increases customer retention
and simplify House and staff management.
1.2 Background
A House rental is a house that can be used temporarily for a period of time with a fee.
Renting a house assists people to live in a comfortable house when they do not have
access to build their own personal homes/houses or. The individual who want to rent a
house/room/apartment/home must first contact the House rental company for the desire
House/Home/apartment. This can be done online. At this point, this person has to supply
some information such as; dates of rental, and type of house. After these details are
worked out, the individual renting the house must present a valid Identification Card.
Most companies throughout the industry make a profit based of the type of house that are
rented. The rental houses are categorized into modern Homes, Colonial, apartment,
Rentals etc. And customers are free to choose any house of their choice based on their
purse and availability of such houses at the time of booking.
1.4.2 Scope
This project traverses a lot of areas ranging from business concept to computing field,
and required to perform several researches to be able to achieve the project objectives.
The area covers include:
• Real Estate Company: This includes study on how the Real Estate business is
being done, process involved and opportunity that exist for improvement.
• PHP Technology used for the development of the application.
• General customers as well as the company’s staff will be able to use the system
effectively.
• Web-platform means that the system will be available for access 24/7 except
when there is a temporary server issue which is expected to be minimal.
• Existing Systems: This involves studying the existing systems and learning their
weakness hence developing a new system to cater for the challenges the local and
world domains faces when dealing with house rental issues.
1.4.3 Applicability
House Rental is a house/Apartment/home that can be used temporarily for a fee during a
specified period. The individual who needs a house must contact a House Rental Owners
Through House rental Online System by first checking the available Houses, booking it
then The system will contact the house owners to check the House and contract out for a
room/home/apartment. This system increases customer retention and simplify House and
staff management. The System can be used by Real Estate Companies to increase the
house rental market around the world. The system will also help people to rent
apartments/houses easily instead of walking and manually renting houses. It is also
applicable for landlords who wants to expand their house rental business.
CHAPTER TWO
SURVEY OF TECHNOLOGIE
PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 and has been in continuous
development ever since. The main implementation of PHP is now produced by the PHP
Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification.
PHP is free software released under the PHP License.
Originally designed to create dynamic web pages, PHP now focuses mainly on server
side scripting, and it is similar to other server-side scripting languages that provide
dynamic content from a web server to a client, such as Microsoft's Active Server Pages,
Sun Microsystems’ Java Server Pages, and mod_perl. PHP has also attracted the
development of many frameworks that provide building blocks and a design structure to
promote rapid application development (RAD). Some of these include CakePHP,
Symfony, Code Igniter and Zend Framework, offering features similar to other web
application frameworks.
For example:
<html>
<head><title>php basics</title></head>
<body>
<h2>HELLO</h1> <?php
echo "hello";
?>
</body>
</html>
In the above example PHP code is embedded within HTML. In this way PHP and HTML
coding is combined on the same page.
Since PHP is a server side scripting language, the PHP coding cannot be seen by the end
user through view source option, due to this feature PHP is very secure.
PHP is a parsed language; therefore PHP environment is necessary at the server for
running PHP scripts.
2.3 Working Of PHP:
When a client requests web page containing PHP code from the server, then the requested
PHP pages are parsed under PHP environment and interaction with database is made if
required.
After server side processing, the resulting HTML pages are passed to client and
displayed on the browser.
$result=mysql_query($qry);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
//some logic
}
The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of
the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.
MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company
MySQL AB, now owned by Sun Microsystems, a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.
MySQL code uses C and C++. The SQL parser uses yacc and a home-brewed lexer,
sql_lex.cc.
MySQL works on many different system platforms, including AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD,
HPUX, i5/OS, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris,
eComStation, OS/2 Warp, QNX, IRIX, Solaris, Symbian, SunOS, SCO OpenServer,
SCO UnixWare, Sanos, Tru64 and Microsoft Windows. A port of MySQL to OpenVMS
also exists.
All major programming languages with language-specific APIs include Libraries for
accessing MySQL database. In addition, an ODBC interface called MyODBC allows
additional programming languages that support the ODBC interface to communicate with
a MySQL database, such as ASP or ColdFusion. The HTSQL - URL based query method
also ships with MySQL adapter allowing direct interaction with MySQL database from
any web client via structured URLs. The MySQL server and official libraries are mostly
implemented in ANSI C/ANSI C++.
In this project apache server is used to parse and execute PHP pages, before deploying
websites on the server, the website should be tested at the developer side to get a feel of
how the website will work on actual server.
Therefore apache server is like a local server on the developer side, apache server should
be informed about the environment on which it should work.
In our project apache server is configured to work with PHP, in this way all the PHP
pages are parsed and executed by the server.
When apache is installed on the system, then its services is controlled by apache service
monitor. The following are the database entities used in this system;
Tenant: general tenant information (name and contact details), finding space for a tenant,
accurate rent billing and collection, handling of payments, accounting and general ledger
(GL) functions.
Landlord, Client or Body Corporate: general details (name and contact details),
shareholding if applicable.
Repair and maintenance schedules are required by the House manager, as well as a diary
to “flag” important dates for tenant’s works, rent review and lease renewal dates. A good
software program should also provide for a forward planning facility.
Any rent invoicing system should record amounts owing from tenants quickly and
accurately and bill them accordingly. Receipts will need to be processed quickly and
credit control systems maintained. Rent demands and accounts should be easily
accessible as should rent apportioned over periods not concurrent with a normal rent
review period. Interest on unpaid rent should be calculable and a stop on rent collection
made if necessary. Full analysis of rents, classified by tenant, property or client should
also be possible. Service charge accounting is often provided as a separate module. This
will need to cater for multi tenanted buildings where perhaps some tenants do not
contribute to some services. Separate schedules may well need to be set up in such cases.
In addition, a full analysis of property expenditure, service suppliers, tenant expenditure,
service charges, wages and salaries, and VAT on expenditure should be possible”.
Strategic management
Lastly, a software programme should provide the information necessary to make strategic
decisions. Such decisions include the performance and valuation of individual properties
and property portfolios, as well as development appraisals. Features that are required
comprise, among other things, tenancy and tenure details, the calculation of yields and
profitability, discounted cash flows, cost, financing, tax implications and the valuation of
both freeholds and leaseholds. All these should be supported by good menu-driven
features and help facilities. Technical aspects and user interface requirements are
discussed below.
CHAPTER THREE
3.1.1 HARDWARE:
3.1.2 SOFTWARE:
Functional requirements are those requirements that are used to illustrate the internal
working
nature of the system, the description of the system, and explanation of each subsystem. It
consists of what task the system should perform, the processes involved, which data
should the system holds and the interfaces with the user. The functional requirements
identified are:
• Customer’s registration: The system should allow new users to register online.
Online Enquiry of House: Customers should be able to use the system to make
online Enquiry. Automatic update to database once Enquiry is made or new
customer.
Registered: Whenever there’s new reservation or new registration, the system
should be able update the database without any additional efforts from the admin.
• Feedbacks to customers: It should provide means for customers to leave feedback.
It describes aspects of the system that are concerned with how the system provides the
functional requirements. They are:
a) Security: The subsystem should provide a high level of security and integrity of
the data held by the system, only authorized personnel of the company can gain
access to the company’s secured page on the system; and only users with valid
password and username can login to view user’s page.
b) Performance and Response time: The system should have high performance rate
when executing user’s input and should be able to provide feedback or response
within a short time span usually 50 seconds for highly complicated task and 20 to
25 seconds for less complicated task.
c) Error handling: Error should be considerably minimized and an appropriate error
message that guides the user to recover from an error should be provided.
Validation of user’s input is highly essential. Also the standard time taken to
recover from an error should be 15 to 20 seconds.
d) Availability: This system should always be available for access at 24 hours, 7
days a week. Also in the occurrence of any major system malfunctioning, the
system should be available in 1 to 2 working days, so that the business process is
not severely affected
CHAPTER FOUR
CONCEPTUAL MODELS
ER diagram
ER diagram Figure 1:
Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
A Data Flow Diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation that depicts the information
flow and the transforms that are applied as data moves from input to output.
Level 1 DFD of Online House Rental System in this diagram, Customer, and System
Administrator are entity sets.
Users/Customers:
Member must be authenticated before accessing system The Members will able to:
View Enquiry details
View Own Profile
Update Profile
View Available Room and Houses.
Feasibility studies undergo four major analysis to predict the system to be success and
they are as follows:
Technical Feasibility
Operational Feasibility
Economic Feasibility
Schedule Feasibility
I. Technical Feasibility
The system in the facts that it has been developed on windows XP platform and a high
configuration of 1GB RAM on Intel Pentium dual core processors. So, this system is
technically feasible. This study is carried out to check the technical requirements of the
system. We can strongly say that it is technically feasible, since there will not be much
difficulty in getting required resources for the development and maintaining the system as
well. All the resources needed for the development of the software are easily collected.
System Design
System Design is the process of defining the element of a system such as the architecture,
modules and components, the different interfaces of the component and the data that goes
through the system. System design gives the knowledge of the requirements and analysis
to design the software product. It is meant to satisfy needs and requirement of a business
or organization through the engineering of a coherent and well-running system. In this
chapter we will be dealing with the module, database design, user interface design and
the program design. For the designing of the application, various diagrams like sequence
diagram, activity diagram etc. have been used.
Architectural Design
An architectural diagram is a visual representation that maps out the physical
implementation for components of a software system.
Figure4: Architectural Design
3 Interface Design
Interface design is an important part of software development. User interface is the front-
end application view to which user interacts in order to use the software. User can
manipulate and control the software as well as hardware by means of user interface. UI
should be as simple as possible.
The system provides username and password to prevent the system from
unauthorized access. The staffs’ password must be greater than eight
characters.
Register Enable customer to Customer has Click register button. Customer will be
for register in the valid email id. Provide required registered in the
House booking system information such as, system.
before name, email, phone no.
booking house
View House Enable Customers Customer is logged Click view Details to Detailed description
Details to view the details in the system see the listed house of The listed House
of listed customers details in the system
houses
Admin/Landlord Enable admin Admin hasrequired Input username Input If verified, grant
log in toLog in to the credentials to log in password Selectuse access to the
system type (Admin Verify system. If not, show
username, password
and type error message.
Create new Enable new Admin has valid Log in as admin, click Another admin will
Admin account admin to use the email id create new user Click be registered in the
system submit system.
User log out Enable user to log User is logged in Click log out button. User will be logged
out of the system out
Change Allow user to User exists in the Log in credentials
password change password system will be updated with
Click forgot
new password.
password in log in
page or change
password in account
settings. If
forgotpassword, then
recovery link will be
sent to email.After
clicking link,input
new password, save
password.
Post/Upload Enable customers Costumers has Input House details New house is
new house to upload a vacant access to the Upload picture. uploaded in the
house for rent or system and system under new
Save
sale into the authority to upload houses web page.
a new house for
system
sale
Update House Enable Admin/costumers Select House to edit Updated
details Admin/customers is logged in and Insert the new changes information will be
to update House has clearance to Save changes saved and
details to current update House displayed.
status details
View House list Enable Customers Customer/tenant is Select House listing List of available
to view list of all logged in to the vacant Houses will
vacant Houses system be displayed
Implementation:
The online House Rental management system in used in the following modules that can be implemented.
Modules Details:
1. Registration/Login module
2. Enquiry Module
3. House Posting Module
4. Feedback and contact module
Login modules:
Login modules is implemented in the online House Rental Management to only allowed a register person. we
have to use this module in security purpose related on the detail.
Registration modules:
The online House Rental management system in Registration modules is used to collect the user personal
information. It has to collect the address, name, phone number also. The registration module details are
stored in the database.
Enquiry Modules:
Online House Rental Management System has an implementation of House Enquiry where only registered
members are allowed to view and book house/office/land/home for rental or lease
House Rental Management System has been implemented with House posting module where the
seller/landlord or system administrator can upload house/property details for sale or rent
TESTING
Testing is the process of detecting errors. Testing performs a very critical role for quality assurance and for
ensuring the reliability of software. The results of testing are used later on during maintenance also effort and
time. Stating formally, we can sayTesting is a process of executing a program with the intent of finding an
error. A successful test is one that uncovers an as yet undiscovered error.
A good test case is one that has a high probability of finding error, if it exists. The tests are inadequate to detect
possibly present errors.The software more or less confirms to the quality and reliable standards.
Levels of Testing:
In order to uncover the errors, present in different phases we have the concept of levels of testing. The basic
levels of testing are as shown below…
Code
Psychology of Testing
The aim of testing is often to demonstrate that a program works by showing that it has no errors. The basic
purpose of testing phase is to detect the errors that may be present in the program.
Hence one should not start testing with the intent of showing that a program works, but the intent should be
to show that a program doesn’t work. Testing is the process of executing a program with the intent of finding
errors.
Testing Objectives:
The main objective of testing is to uncover a host of errors, systematically and with minimum.
Using XAMP Server Upload the system files to the htdocs directory then open your server in the browser by
typing http://localhost/phpmyadmin to import the database.
CHAPTER 6
CONCLUSION
Conclusion
House Rental business has emerged with a new goodies compared to the past experience where every activity
concerning House rental business is limited to a physical location only. Even though the physical location has
not been totally eradicated; the nature of functions and how these functions are achieved has been reshaped by
the power of internet. Nowadays, customers can reserve book/buy/sale House online, rent House online, and
have the house contracted successfully without any sweat once the customer is a registered member of the
House Rental Management System.
The web based House rental system has offered an advantage to both Tenants as well as Landlords to
efficiently and effectively manage the business and satisfies customers’ need at the click of a button
The system at present does not take care of the money payment methods, as the
consolidated constructs need SSL standards and are critically to be initiated in the first face, the application of
the credit card transactions is applied as a developmental phase in the coming days. The system needs more
elaborative technicality for its inception and evolution.
REFERENCES
Books Used:
References Used:
http://www.resgroup.net/
http://www.a1realestate.solutions
Wikipedia.org
www.w3schools.com
www.webcampzg.org
GLOSSARY
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Appendices
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